I love analyzing my native language, American English, and helping non-native speakers make sense of it. I've been doing this for fun with friends who speak English as a second language for nearly 30 years. I would like to first thank A.D., C.F. and E.A., and now P.G., for inspiring me to finally write this stuff down!

Monday, November 28, 2011

Off the top of my head

'Off the top of my head' is used to refer to the first thing a person can think of.

Examples:
-Do we need anything at the grocery?
-Not off the top of my head.

-What do you want for your birthday?
-I can't think of anything off the top of my head.